Munich suburban wedding 1905

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Munich suburban wedding in 1905
(suburban wedding )
Suburban Wedding VS.jpg
purpose Cultivating customs and organizing the annual ball
Chair: Anton Leiss-Huber
Establishment date: 1908
Seat : Munich
Website: www.vorstadthochzeit.de

The Munich suburb wedding in 1905 e. V. was founded in 1908 by Karl Arnold , a cartoonist of the Simplicissimus , and looks back on a tradition spanning more than a hundred years. The idea was to parody a serious wedding in the Munich suburbs with a costume ball.

history

The Hofbräuhaus on Platzl

In the period between the 19th and 20th centuries, there were important artist festivals in Munich for the entire German-speaking area, such as the "Bauernkirta" at the old Schwabinger landlord and the "Juggler", "Argonauts" or the "Model Ball" in the "blossom", a place in the flower street. Karl Arnold had the idea of ​​creating something new. He and his colleagues from the satirical magazine "Simplicissimus" created the Munich suburban wedding. Initially intended as a carnival ball, it now takes place every spring between April and May in the Hofbräuhaus am Platzl , attracting great media attention.

Then there was the entry of the veterans 'association, the choral society or the parade of the virgins' association as well as folk singers who satirically accompanied the whole thing. Comedians, variety shows, cabaret, Brettl songs and couplets populated the pubs and theaters in Munich, Berlin and Vienna at the turn of the century. The big politics served as a target as well as the petty bourgeois everyday life. Names like Papa Geis, Weiß Ferdl and Karl Valentin are reminiscent of this heyday of the couplet. Popular entertainment at a high artistic level was offered. The bride and groom and their relatives sat at a table with a white tablecloth, and existing children were pushed in in a stroller. King Ludwig I appeared in a play, and Kaiser Wilhelm II came in a loden suit with a cuirassier helmet, looking for Ludwig Ganghofer.

In 1938 the festival was stopped and only revived in 1951. But it wasn't until 1958 that the suburban wedding picked up speed again, pushed by a committee consisting of the lawyers Claus Bastian and Hans Pixis, the Bavarian playwright Hans Fitz and his wife Ilse, the interior designer Hans Ley and the bohemian Edi Sohler. The ladies and gentlemen used their extensive social relationships in the city to invite the right people. In addition there were u. a. Artists such as Ernst Maria Lang, Ludwig Schmid-Wildy and greats from politics and business, such as the global trade fair entrepreneur Joachim Hietzig, who have made great contributions to the preservation of the festival.

It has since changed its venue several times. From the "Arzberger Keller" it came to the inn "Zum Franziskaner over the Klause" in the Harlaching district, to the "Hackerkeller" on the Theresienhöhe, and then to move back to the state-run Hofbräuhaus with a "stopover" in the Hofbräukeller on Wiener Platz Festival was already held in the 1970s.

In addition to dancing and a traditional Bavarian wedding dinner, well-known actors, cabaret artists, artists and singers appear every year to entertain the guests.

First Bad Taste Party in the world

The Berlin writer Erich Mühsam (1878–1934) tells of his visit to the suburban wedding around 1910 in “Nonpolitical Memories” and thus provides evidence that it was Munich's first “Bad Taste Party”. It is very likely the first festival with this motto worldwide.

"I did not take part in official artist festivals, the inventive style of which greatly enhanced Munich Carnival in the glory of the world. A certain sophisticated sophistication prevailed here, and the drink appropriate to this Gaudi was sparkling wine. Despite all the informality and merriment, it wasn't quite The atmosphere that suited me. Celebrities were shown to each other, and the most beautiful masks were in the end the ones who had made the most money for their disguise. Only the annual "suburban wedding," the one in mask and demeanor, was free the habits and customs of a dicktuerischen petty bourgeoisie verulkte. This Gaudi, whose precious artistic style power lay in the implementation of all imaginable style adversity , in which people of the highest artistic taste - Albert Weisgerber of the funniest organizer was the feast - the dolled taste, the unsuccessful gentility and clumsy G razie made the subject of the contest, had so much amusement in the idea and in the invention of the participants that even a hint of social convention was impossible here, also impossible because the most attractive women had to overcome each other, To bring hairstyle and costume in the most blatant contrast to what they themselves found beautiful. "

Known guests

Television (selection)

  • Saturday, May 12, 2012: Munich suburban wedding in 1905 (Denkzeit - The program to think along, reflect and think further - BR-alpha )
  • Repetition of the program Denkzeit: Saturday, February 9, 2013 (BR-alpha)
  • Repetition of the program Denkzeit: Saturday, February 14, 2015 (ARD-alpha)
  • Monday, April 27, 2020: The suburban wedding (Experience Bavaria - Bayerischer Rundfunk Fernsehen)

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ↑ History of the suburban wedding in 1905 e. V.
  2. ↑ online in the Gutenberg-DE project
  3. ↑ SZ district editions , Saturday, April 14, 2012 ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 130 kB)
  4. ↑ online in the Gutenberg-DE project
  5. ↑ Denkzeit: Münchner Vorstadt-Hochzeit anno 1905 - BR-alpha ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) - programm.ARD.de
  6. ↑ Thinking time: Munich suburb wedding anno 1905 - ARD-alpha - programm.ARD.de